Joint Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium

Colloquiums are held on Tuesdays at 11:00 am and are organized by The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall and Princeton University in the Spring. Details on the current colloquiums can be found below. Coffee provided 10:30am to 11:00am before the start of the lecture. The Joint Astrophysics Colloquium is immediately followed by the Bahcall Lunch. 

For questions about a speaker's visit to The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall, please contact Tomer Yavetz, Stephen Chen or Amanda Cenker.

For questions about a speaker's visit to Princeton University the Spring, please contact:  or Mami Akiyama. Visitors to the Princeton University Campus must follow their visitor policy.

Videos of past talks at the IAS can be found on the IAS video server or on YouTube.

Colloquia Archives

Current Colloquium Schedule

Sep
26
2023

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

Multi-messenger observations of cosmic collisions and explosions: progenitors, relativistic ejecta, and remnants
Alessandra Corsi
10:30am|Wolfensohn Hall

The births and mergers of neutron stars and black holes, the most exotic objects in the universe, can launch the fastest cosmic jets (gamma-ray bursts; GRBs) and shake the very fabric of space-time with gravitational waves. GW170817, the merger of...

Oct
10
2023

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

The Dynamical Evolution of Exoplanet Systems Over Billions of Years
Kevin Schlaufman
10:30am|Wolfensohn Hall

Exoplanet systems are expected to evolve with time as they age. In most cases though, the dynamical evolution of exoplanet systems over billion-year timescales are hard to observe. I'll describe how Galactic kinematics can provide accurate and...

Nov
14
2023

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

How much (robust) cosmological information can we obtain from galaxy clustering?
Fabian Schmidt
10:30am|Wolfensohn Hall

All large-scale structure cosmologists are faced with the question: how do we robustly extract cosmological information, such as on dark energy, gravity, and inflation, from observed tracers such as galaxies whose astrophysics is extremely complex...